Profile: Julie Sampson

About This Author

A widely published academic and poet, Julie Sampson’s poems appear in a wide variety of magazines including, recently, Molly Bloom; Bindweed; Coven Poetry; LitWorld2; Amethyst Review and Projectionist's Playground. Sampson edited Mary Lady Chudleigh; Selected Poems, 2009 (Shearsman Books) and her first poetry collection, 'Tessitura', was published by Shearsman, in 2014. Her pamphlet/chapbook 'It Was When It Was When It Was' was published by Dempsey & Windle, in 2018. Sampson's most recent collection is 'Fivestones' (Lapwing, 2022). Her work has been placed or listed in poetry competitions, including a ‘highly commended’ in the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize, in 2019 and an 'honourable mention' in the Survision James Tate Memorial Prize, in 2021. She also researches the history of Devon women writers and has published pieces about her work, including papers about Devon's C16 author Anne Dowriche, for the Devonshire Association, and is currently preparing a book based on her research for publication later this year. Her other fascination is family history and she's spent many hours visiting Devon villages and looking for information about the Sampsons of Broadwoodkelly as well as other branches of her family - which except for one branch were all rooted for centuries in Devon. Sampson has a PhD from the University of Exeter, on the writer H.D. Her author website is https://www.juliesampson.com/about-1/ Twitter is @julieEsampson and Instagram julieesampson/writtenindevon.